"Maria Full of Grace" star Catalina Sandino Moreno is my pick for the Best Actress Oscar race this year. I know, I know . . . Hillary Duff is the probable winner, but I'm rooting for Catalina. She's an up and coming actress to watch.
It was Catalina's first movie AND marks the first Oscar nomination for any Colombian actors/actress. (Viva Colombia!) The 23-year-old actress was so thrilled to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, she said she wants to bring her whole family to this year's Academy Awards ceremony: "I'm happy. A lot of people ask me, 'What are you going to wear?' I'm like, 'I don't know. I just knew (I was going) three, four hour ago! I don't know anything.' I just know that I'm trying to realize that I'm getting an Oscar nomination. That is very, very odd. Just let me digest it and then we talk about dresses. And the only thing I know is that I'm going to have fun. I'm going to be with my family. I talked to my grandmother and she was like, 'I'm going to go to LA to see you at the Oscars.' That's perfect. I want all of my family to come!"
